The Coffee Pot, Roadhouse in Grandin Court, Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
The Coffee Pot is a roadhouse in Roanoke, Virginia, topped by a large red stucco coffee pot with a white spout and painted steam curls rising from its lid. The walls are built using vertical log construction on all sides, which sets the building apart from neighboring structures along Brambleton Avenue SW.
The building opened in 1936 as a filling station and tea room run by Clifton and Irene Kefauver, then shifted to a roadhouse just one year later. That early change set the course for how it would function for decades along what grew into a major route through the region.
The Coffee Pot draws locals and musicians who come for live performances in a setting that feels rooted in the neighborhood. The oversized rooftop sculpture has become a kind of landmark that people use to orient themselves along Brambleton Avenue SW.
The roadhouse sits on Brambleton Avenue SW in Roanoke and is easy to spot from a distance thanks to the red sculpture on the roof. It is worth checking ahead to see if an event is scheduled, as the program tends to vary from one evening to the next.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places while still operating as an active venue, rather than being preserved as a museum. The vertical log construction used throughout the walls was rarely applied to commercial entertainment buildings of its era, making it an unusual example of that building method.
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